there are a lot of threads here about my interest in photography; one shared by many others on this board.
the pics I take at parties (where I know a lot of the crew) are mostly pics of the stack, long distance views (which make it hard to identify individuals), often shot without using flash to get the lighting effects and are people I know and random stuff from the venues. Anything else potentially dodgy is deleted.
Also a few wildlife pics of any animals I see (sometimes at house parties people show you their pets) – have a look at the animal photos on the gallery.
many of my photos used to go on our gallery and even on the SJ galleries but obviously I can’t put them up now because of the PEL regulations. those I did upload went through a lot of processing to clean them up and remove metadata – I do not upload entire unedited camera chips to the public internet like some people seemed to do (complete with camera date and time stamps etc..)
since digital photos don’t cost anything I also tend to shoot 100+ pics and only use about 30 or so of the best ones. they do get circulated amongst people in the crews who put on the events (the ketwork32 lot) and are stored on peoples personal collections.
Some of my pictures (suitably edited) have been used for flyers and other material the crews produce.
Loads of people have quite extensive collections of their own and others rave photos which are passed around by private e-mail or CD-R, the same “samizdat” method used by most underground scenes..
I started doing this around 1997/8 or so (used to use normal film cameras before digital ones became common. Loads of people have collections of pics at raves; there were some particularly ropey ones of me on the SJ gallery..
